[MCN] A different kind of carbon tax rebellion rebellion : Germans Agree CO2 Taxes Aren’t High Enough and Want to Pay More

[Lance Olsen]

Germans Agree CO2 Taxes Aren’t High Enough and Want to Pay More <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiECZYqQMQPT9NkwD2DA1y1FQqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4uzwCjCF3bsCMIrOrwM?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Germans say they're ready pay a higher national levy on carbon pollution after utilities and policy makers joined climate activists in rebelling against proposed ...
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“Conservationists are unquestionably useful people. And among the many useful services that they have rendered has been that of dramatizing the vast appetite the United States has developed for materials of all kinds.”

“But what of the appetite itself? Surely this is the ultimate source of the problem. If it continues its geometric course, will it not one day have to be restrained? Yet in the literature of the resource problem this is the forbidden question. Over it hangs a nearly total silence. It is as though, in the discussion of the chance for avoiding automobile accidents, we agree not to make any mention of speed!”

John K. Galbraith. “How much should a country consume?”

In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation. 

John Hopkins Press. 1958
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